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This limited effectiveness was due to a mutation that occurred in the influenza A (H3N2) vaccine strain, according to a study published Monday in th See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Flu Season:...

A new report links having an IUD to a 30% lower risk of cervical cancer. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News IUDs May Have a Surprising Health Benefit Source: Virology News

The Region of the Americas is a leader in vaccinating pregnant women against influenza, a public health problem that for future mothers, newborns, and other high-risk populations can mean severe disease, complications, and hospitalization....

10th NorPEN Congress 1st – 3rd November 2017, Safety, drugs and vaccines – methodological considerations Safety of HPV vaccines – A case-control study Kår Ed Rybicki’s insight:Watch it all!! See it on Scoop.it, via...

Kenyan authorities are angry after Tanzania police burnt to death 6,400 one-day-old chicks from Kenya, on suspicion they could spread bird flu. Tanzania’s regional livestock boss, Obedi Nyasembwa, said the chicks, worth about Sh554,000...

Author summary We determined the binding sites of six novel human norovirus specific Nanobodies (Nano-4, Nano-14, Nano-26, Nano-27, Nano-32, and Nano-42) using X-ray crystallography. The unique Nanobody recognition epitopes were correlated with their potential...

Influenza A virus in swine (IAV-S) affects more than 70 percent of growing pigs each year. Airborne and transmitted snout to snout, it’s putting your whol See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Influenza...

Each year we are flooded with large ad campaigns encouraging us to get our flu shots. Most of us probably wonder why. The flu doesn’t seem that bad, right See it on Scoop.it, via...

France most skeptical country about vaccine safety The French had less confidence in the safety of vaccines than the residents of 66 other countrie Ed Rybicki’s insight:VERY sad: the country that help invent modern...

Which mattered first at the dawn of life: proteins or nucleic acids? Proteins may have had the edge if a theorized process let them grow long enough to become self-replicating catalysts. See it on Scoop.it,...